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Xero Looking for Financial Planning & Performance Analyst at Wellington City, Wellington Full Time
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.
At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
How you’ll make an impact
This role is pivotal in providing support to Finance Business Partners to deliver leading financial,planning and analysis across the business. You will need to develop an understanding of the Xero business environment and insight into its requirements for forecasting, budgeting and performance evaluation. You will build strong relationships throughout the business and communicate analysis and projection of information to many different levels and people throughout the company.
What you’ll do
- Provide support to Finance Business Partners, working across multiple portfolios to drive faster and better decision making and performance management across Xero
- Analyse business results, interpret and provide analysis of management information through modelling, inquiry and challenge across responsible portfolio(s)
- Supply and implement consistent, best practice management reporting and modelling, providing insight and performance evaluation for key metrics
- Contribute to the finance component of planning and forecasting for the business
- Apply investment appraisal techniques and post implementation reviews to support the business in the development and evaluation of the finance component of strategies and investment opportunities
- Build commercial skills across the business, understand strategic direction and help to highlight potential areas of risk or value
- Actively contribute to and provide support for projects/initiatives undertaken by the business and by the FP&A team
What you’ll bring with you
- 3-5 years relevant experience
- Ideally CA / CPA / CFA qualified
- Experience in high growth technology or SaaS business would be a bonus
- Business planning, forecasting and modelling
- Performance reporting and management
- Strong analytical capability
- Problem solving skills, innovative thinker
- Excellent planning skills with the ability to prioritise and multitask
- Strong effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment
- High energy level, self-starter, proactive and results oriented
Xero is a values based business, please include a cover letter explaining how you would bring #human to this role.
Xero is a Rainbow Tick certified employer.
Xero strongly encourages employees and contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work from a Xero office, or engage in any face-to-face Xero business. Xero will work with anyone who is not vaccinated, or prefers not to disclose their vaccination status, to determine what reasonable accommodations can be provided to ensure their role can be performed safely.
Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.
